Last night, I went to bed enraged, I slept restless and mad, and woke up extremely pissed off.
And I'm still extremely pissed off. After watching half of the debate, I spent the other half screaming at the TV while screaming at my husband to stop making excuses for BO. I'm into reality too, and I was not having any of my husband's spin. When BO kept looking down, I yelled at him to pick his head up, meanwhile my husband is telling me maybe he's doing it to keep from smashing Romney in the face.
Really? Are you serious? Testosterone much?
Look, I don't know why he was doing it. I don't care. I didn't like it. So then I called my mom and we both started yelling at the TV at the same moments, like the dozens of times BO didn't call Romney out for the gazillions of lies he spewed.
Another disturbing thing is that I am truly turning into my mom. It's time I stop denying it. The same nonsense set us off last night. Not only that, we yelled at the same times, and 80% of those times we shouted the same naughty words. It was truly a wonder to behold.
But I digress.....
At the end, we both vowed not to turn the TV on (cable news pundits et al ... especially CNN and Fox) until the next debate, which is doable, since I don't watch TV. Mom will have a bigger problem because she's a cable news junkie.
However, despite my husband's willingness to stick his head in the sand and pretend last night was a "MAJOR WIN FOR OBAMA," [insert eye roll] our final assessment (mom and me) was that BO appeared either unprepared, mentally exhausted, or (and this was mom's idea) he purposely let Romney lay out his endless treasure trove of lies, so that he'd have something to kick his ass with during the next debate. IOW, she said BO was giving Willard enough rope to hang himself.
Look, I don't know what he was doing, and I don't care. I'm just pissed off because I love this president SO MUCH and I'll support him come hell or high water, but he had better get his crap together by the next debate. Just the thought of Willard and Queen Ann as president and first lady makes me want to hack up a lung.
Though I was extremely enraged last night, I ended up going to OFA's website and donated some money. That only made me feel mildly good. I was still pissed when I went to bed, and as you can see, I'm not exactly calm now. This just makes me more determined to vote and to get everyone I know to vote.
One bright spot last night was, as I was screaming at the TV, I got so pissed off I went downstairs to get a beverage, and lo and behold my kids were parked in front of the TV watching the debates!! I didn't even have to ask them to watch. They did it on their own, and were actually engaged in it!! Two are of voting age, and they plan to vote for BO. My daughters said Willard was a smarmy liar and that they can't wait for November 6!!
But the real surprise came when I saw my 15 year old son down there too. Watching it. This is the same kid I practically had to beg to watch the first lady's convention speech, and the only reason he said he finished watching it was because he thought she was "hot."
Anyway, he looks over his shoulder at me and says, "Mommy, that Romney guy is creeping me out. I dunno, there's just something wrong about him. He makes my skin crawl."
See Mitt, even children think you're a creepy slug.
I hope to maintain my anger until election day because it's what motivates me to keep up the fight.
I intended to spend today hiding in bed, with the covers over my head, but the anger wouldn't let me.
So I guess I'll have to go donate AGAIN!